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grammatical gender vs syntactic category

syntactic category vs grammatical gender

grammatical gender and syntactic category both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
grammatical gender Yes No No No
syntactic category Yes No No No
As nouns, syntactic category is a hypernym of grammatical gender; that is, syntactic category is a word with a broader meaning than grammatical gender:
  • grammatical gender: a grammatical category in inflected languages governing the agreement between nouns and pronouns and adjectives; in some languages it is quite arbitrary but in Indo-European languages it is usually based on sex or animateness
  • syntactic category: (grammar) a category of words having the same grammatical properties
Other hypernyms of grammatical gender include grammatical category.
grammatical gender (noun) syntactic category (noun)
a grammatical category in inflected languages governing the agreement between nouns and pronouns and adjectives; in some languages it is quite arbitrary but in Indo-European languages it is usually based on sex or animateness (grammar) a category of words having the same grammatical properties
Difference between grammatical gender and syntactic category

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